Articles

theatlantic.com
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In early December, a shocking video recorded in the lobby of an apartment building on the outskirts of Beirut surfaced on the internet. The video, posted to an unusual Facebook page called Weynieh el Dawleh—or “Where is the state?”—showed two young men grabbing another man and leading him away at gunpoint. A caption claimed that the men were involved in a drug-related dispute and requested the public’s help in uncovering their identities.

nationaljournal.com
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The battle kicking off in federal court on Monday between AT&T-Time Warner and the Department of Justice will ultimately decide the fate of the proposed $85 billion merger between the telecommunications and mass-media giants. But antitrust experts say the outcome of the DOJ’s bid to block the takeover will reverberate far beyond AT&T and Time Warner, or even the telecom and entertainment industries.

executivegov.com
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Lisa Monaco, homeland security adviser to President Barack Obama, has said the U.S. electoral process is now part of the critical infrastructure that should be protected from any foreign intervention, The Atlantic reported Friday. Monaco said Friday at an Aspen Institute event that the incoming administration should work to implement international standards through an executive order in order to impose sanctions on foreign countries involved in cyber attacks, Kaveh Waddell writes.

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Phrases

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Near

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